S2 Ep.02 Death of the Odyssey
13 Minutes to the Moon
Is It an Instrumentation Problem?
Apollo 12 was struck by lightning shortly after liftoff. John Aaron, a 27-year-old flight controller from rural Oklahoma, knew the ECOM systems better than anyone else. His encyclopedic knowledge of the spacecraft's instruments saved the mission.
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